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XYZprinting recently debuted its Nobel Superfine Digital Light Processing 3D printer, launched earlier this year, in the UK.
The company’s Nobel Superfine Digital Light Processing 3D printer was introduced to a UK audience last month at the TCT Show, an event subsequently reported on by TCT Magazine.
The new 3D printer, which was released earlier this summer, “is the company’s fastest and most precise 3D printer to date, using advanced Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology to create layers up to three times thinner than a strand of human hair.”
XYZPrinting has commented that the printer’s affordable price tag of £2659 means that it is “perfect for jewellers or dentists looking to make high quality moulds.”
DLP technology is faster in some areas than Stereolithography (SLA), which uses fine lasers, as DLP “uses a digital projector screen to flash a single image of each layer across the whole platform”. It also “prints castable resin and flexible resin” thereby “creating outstanding print quality at rapid speeds.”
This embedded technology allows the printer to achieve an X and Y axis resolution of 50 microns (0.05mm) and a layer thickness of up to 25 microns (0.025mm). A strand of human hair measures an average of 75 microns.
“We are really excited at XYZprinting to be able to bring this sophisticated technology to our customers at such an affordable price with the Nobel Superfine,” Fernando Hernandez, MD for XYZprinting Europe, commented. “The embedded DLP technology creates exceptionally high quality prints that will prove revolutionary to the jewellery and dental industries.”